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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

George Herbert

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Country Cutting People Thrice
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little Own Patient
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Always Boot Ready
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
Weening is not measure.
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Doubt Knowlegfe Matter Weep
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Mirth Needs Sin
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drowned Length Swimmer
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Mean Measure Run Year
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

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